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A family memoir and a memorial to a short life, Joshua in the Sky tells the story of one man's attempt to come to make sense of the death of his baby nephew from a rare blood condition both share, asking the questions: whose life deserves to be remembered? And how?

Hope Never Knew Horizon fictionalises the origins of three cultural objects associated with hope - the blue whale skeleton hung in London's Natural History Museum, Emily Dickinson's poem 'Hope is the thing with feathers', and G. F. Watts' painting 'Hope' - telling their stories from the perspective of someone marginalised from history.

The latest book by award-winning author Donald S Murray, Red Star Over Hebrides uses short stories and poetry inflected by the author's own personal experiences in post-war Lewis to shine a light on the deeply rooted social and cultural connections between the Outer Hebrides and Russia, the Baltic States and even Ukraine and Poland.

Based on the real-life family history of the author, Connective Tissue is a story of parallel mothers told in alternating narratives: of Helena, an air traffic controller living in present-day Scotland whose child is born with an undiagnosed paralysis, and her grandmother, Dora, a single Jewish mother living in Nazi-era Berlin.

In turn-of-the-century Amsterdam, Femke meets an ageing poet, Michiel de Koning, and tries to nurse him back to health. De Koning's mysterious past leads Femke on a journey to discover the identity of De Koning's inspiration, 'M'. This pursuit of the truth reveals the uncertainties of her own past in a world of unreliable listeners.

The second poetry collection by Mary Ford Neal, an academic and poet from the West of Scotland, Relativism is a series of poems that deal with themes of attachment, belonging, certainty, doubt, and relationship (to places, times, people, and ideas).

While better known for her solo journeys across the Arctic, these essays detail Isobel Wylie Hutchison's journeys across Scotland, including visits to Skye, John O' Groats and the various literary shrines across the country.

A fictional history of a Perthshire woollen mill told by those locked in and out of its walls, such as a 19th century stonemason and rural suffragette. Each story is interwoven to create a haunting tale rooted in the struggle for women's rights, and the long-term impact of industrialisation upon rural Scotland.

Written during the recovery from Covid-19 symptoms, Plague Clothes is an immediate and intimate account of our experience with the pandemic. Moving seamlessly between confessional, satire and philosophical enquiry, the poems offer a rare voice of wisdom and protest. Longlisted for the 2020 Highland Book Prize.